I love you my brother Charlie. Your soul is the kind we need plenty of in Heaven. The fact that this song is stirring your heart is a certain indication of that fact. When YOU are ready my brother to be saved it'll happen. I'm thankful for your candor. If I never have the pleasure of meeting you here upon this earth, I'll certainly see you in Heaven. Kindest Regards to all.... 👉John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
It's hard for me to express how much I feel listening to this great song. My English is not good enough to say it, I have been looking for it for years and suddenly, she is there, which makes me shiver with pleasure. I don't understand all the words, because the accent is different from the American language I know. But the melody takes me to the vast plains of the west.
It is funny how one artist leads you to another . I discovered her through John Prine and i loved her voice the first time . And i heard John Denver cover a couple of Prines songs and went out a bought his first record .I think i played it 20 times in a row. " Sam Stone" and "Hello in there" powerful very powerful
Got out of a sick bed to hear this lady. A music critic from one of Australia's top newspapers was there. He noted three song writer's in the front row. One he said was nearly wetting her pants just at the thought of being there. I know how she felt. God bless you Iris, as you have blessed.
My old relatives from Iowa, 19th Century, sang with a fast vibrato and everything was at marching tempo… such a wonderful performance. I’m sure God liked it… too.
I grew up with my dad playing that record and that song a lot and I always adored Iris Dement's verion above any other - then when I saw True Grit right when it came out I was so pumped that the song was used so prominently in such popular and great movie! No doubt at all there were tons of people that got turned on to Iris Dement's music from that.
Thank you Iris and Annie. This is so beautiful, so sweet, so comforting. Good on ya mates. Oh and thank you to the Coen Bros and all the cast of True Grit and to the predecessor True Grit way back with John Wayne and Kim Darby and Glen Campbell and Robert Duvall.
A true artist. Her singing voice sounds different from her speaking voice. And I know I will meet her in heaven (if there be a place)...because she drew me in with such wonderful interpretation of the most beautiful hymn ever written.
@@MrIndyjoe It's pervasive narcissism. I stopped going to concerts because the audience talked during the performances and many would sing along. I thought it was just a fluke and then it happened everytime. So, I decided to stay home and listen to the artists on the CD's. It saves time and money and aggravation.
Even if you don't return to church, return to the One who made you - Jesus. The Sweet One, who loves you dearly and died just to get you back. There will never be anyone better.
wish she would have sung this, or, ANYTHING that was familiar, in her Cincinnati show recently -- she didn't do this or Our town, or Let the mystery be, or Mama's opery, or ----- ANYTHING we might have known.
Night of the Hunter. Charles Laughton directed it and it was panned by the critics and he took it to heart and never made another movie. It's now a classic. They say Orson Welles' Citizen Kane is the best. Night of the Hunter is stark with no tricks. Robert Mitchum was brilliant and Laughton got the psychopathic preacher down to the essence of evil.
I guess I need to explain my comment. When I hear her speak, I hear an adult woman: When I hear her sing, I hear a young girl about 15 or 16 years old.
shakakaun1 I was just thinking the very same thing... have you heard Iris sing ... Our Town ... if not please listen if enjoy this version of ... leaning on the everlasting Lord... I think you will enjoy the haunting quality of her voice in that song as well
As a matter of fact I have listened to her sing Our Town. I like the version of her and Emmy Lou Harris.There is something about Iris DeMent's voice that adds a haunting quality to the song. For me, it seems to awaken a yearning in me for a simpliar time.
A great atmospheric song and voice. She must have rehearsed and performed this hundreds of times though so I felt the crowd were a little short changed getting a part version in the wrong key. I bet most of them paid to hear this very tune sung as in True Grit.
Sorry, Fanny - it's not yours; it's Elisha Hoffman / Anthony Showalter, published 1897. From Deut. 33.27 "... and underneath are the everlasting arms".
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms was written by Elisha Hoffman and Anthony Showalter, NOT Fanny J. Crosby. Can not understand why Dement would say such an egregious thing? Surely she knows better?
